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Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

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Herbert Francis Peyser


[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…

The Best Church Hymns

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson


This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this reco…

Idle Hours In A Library

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William Henry Hudson


“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…

The Prelude To Adventure

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Hugh Walpole


Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…

The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

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Rex Beach


Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…

Infamous Day: Marines At Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941

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Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


Historical overview and personal reminiscences published in 1992. Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941. Part of U.S. Government U.S. Marine…

Sister Dolorosa

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James Lane Allen


A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither?…

The Dogs Of Boytown

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Walter Alden Dyer


This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information abou…

Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London

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Elizabeth W. Grierson


These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth (1910) but adults will also enjoy them. St. …

A Versailles Christmas-Tide

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Mary Stuart Boyd


The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…

The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…

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Frank Thomas Bullen


The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…

A Gringo In Mañana-Land

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Harry La Tourette Foster


Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…

Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories

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Hugh Walpole


Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…

Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Do…

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Hugh Walpole


Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…

Saint Joan: Preface

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George Bernard Shaw


Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…

Richard Strauss

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Herbert Francis Peyser


There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…

The Chinese Dragon

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Luther Newton Hayes


The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…

Christmas Outside Of Eden

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Coningsby Dawson


A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath t…

Walking-Stick Papers

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Robert Cortes Holliday


Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday…

Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) …

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Wilkinson Dent Bird


One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by …

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